The right really DOES take the opposite position as Obama no matter what the issue is

[A'isha]

So, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Obama released a statement mentioning how the survivors bore witness to “the horrors of the cattle cars, ghettos, and concentration camps have witnessed humanity at its very worst and know too well the pain of losing loved ones to senseless violence.”

One influential publication on the right, naturally, could not be seen to agree with Obama on anything, not even that, so they immediately took issue with his particular phrasing when describing the Holocaust, because the Nazis' political platform was composed of 25 non-senseless points, including the “unification of all Germans,” a demand for “land and territory for the sustenance of our people,” and an assertion that “no Jew can be a member of the race", which persuaded many sensible Germans to follow them.

No, really. That's exactly what they did, almost word for word.

For extra "they only care about attacking Obama" fun, look who else called the Holocaust "senseless".

 

[Alferd_Packer]

Nazism may have been an ideology to which the United States was — and to which the president is — implacably opposed, but it is hardly “senseless.”

 

[LibraryLady]

Seriously? The National Review?

 

[ravdin]

Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos!

 

[Unabogie]

One might make the same point about Osama Bin Laden and 9/11.

 

[Alferd_Packer]

Say what you will about the tenets of the National Socialism Review, at least it's an ethos!

ftfy

 

[Random]

At this point, I would like to see Obama come out in support of breathing, just to see what Republicans would do with it...

 

[Peephole]

That is just an incredibly weird column, I really can't make out whether I'm reading an actual endorsement of nazism, or if it's just some form of sarcasm taken too far.

 

[Monketi Ghost]

About time someone stood up for the Nazis. That's pretty amazing stuff there. Pure genius, thy name is Eliana Johnson.

 

[Kaosium]

That is just an incredibly weird column, I really can't make out whether I'm reading an actual endorsement of nazism, or if it's just some form of sarcasm taken too far.

She's just saying there was an ideology behind it, it wasn't a random act of senseless violence. Pedantry in my view.

 

[Alferd_Packer]

She's just saying there was an ideology behind it, it wasn't a random act of senseless violence. Pedantry in my view.

no, they were well planned acts of senseless violence.

 

[Kaosium]

no, they were well planned acts of senseless violence.

Well-planned acts of purposeful violence, serving a frightening ideology.

 

[Alferd_Packer]

Well-planned acts of purposeful violence, serving a frightening ideology.

The purpose and ideology makes no sense to me.

 

[Kaosium]

 

[jj]

Well-planned acts of purposeful violence, serving a frightening ideology.

Yeah, starting to sound more and more familiar in the present day, too, isn't it?

 

[angrysoba]

Nazism may have been an ideology to which the United States was — and to which the president is — implacably opposed, but it is hardly “senseless.” By the early 1930s, the Nazi party had hundreds of thousands of devoted members and repeatedly attracted a third of the votes in German elections; its political leaders campaigned on a platform comprising 25 non-senseless points, including the “unification of all Germans,” a demand for “land and territory for the sustenance of our people,” and an assertion that “no Jew can be a member of the race.” Suffice it to say, many sensible Germans were persuaded.

"Suffice to say"?

Is there some joke going on here? Is this satire? It has to be.

 

[Upchurch]

No, really. That's exactly what they did, almost word for word.

wtf did I just read?

I'd like to see Obama to denounce Satan, just to see evangelicals pull out the Good Guy Lucifer memes. We could probably harness the cognitive dissonance as an alternative source of energy.

 

[Monketi Ghost]

wtf did I just read?

I'd like to see Obama to denounce Satan, just to see evangelicals pull out the Good Guy Lucifer memes. We could probably harness the cognitive dissonance as an alternative source of energy.

This one rules:

 

[DC]

Well Satan did try to overthrow a dictator. he is a freedomfighter, isn't he?

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

Well-planned acts of purposeful violence, serving a frightening ideology.

If that's the case, is there any such a thing as "senseless violence". . or "senseless" anything?

No, the objection doesn't make any sense. The conventional definition of senseless is much broader than what would justify your position. (Your position being that it's wrong to use senseless in describing the violence perpetrated by the Nazis during the Holocaust.)

Here's what Merriam Webster says about the word:

Definition of SENSELESS

: destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to sense: as
a : unconscious <knocked senseless>
b : foolish, stupid <it was some senseless practical joke — A. Conan Doyle>
c : meaningless <a senseless murder>